A charity race Saturday challenges runners to experience a mile or two in the lives of the children and families who do not have a clean and close source of water.

For Saturday’s “Carry a Jerry” race, participants will run a 5K or 15K race while carrying a jerrycan — a metal, 2.5-gallon container used by residents in developing countries to retrieve clean water from a water source and carry it for miles to their homes

On WAMC/Inside Higher Ed’s “The Academic Minute,” Davide Zori, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core in the Honors College, will discuss the social and political importance of lavish Viking feasts in Iceland centuries ago. Zori, an archeologist and scholar of medieval literature, conducted National Science Foundation-funded research at Mosfell farmstead, where he was archeological field director.

Baylor University’s Honors College and the Paradosis Center for Theology and Scripture at John Brown University will welcome Brian E. Daley, Ph.D., S.J., endowed professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, to the annual Wilken Colloquium.

Daley’s lecture, “Exploring Patristic Eschatology,” will take place at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, in the Foyer of Meditation in Armstrong Browning Library.